Bolshoi General Director Is Replaced

Move Comes Six Months After Ballet Head Virtually Blinded in Acid Attack

By

Lukas I. Alpert and

Gregory L. White

Updated July 9, 2013 10:22 a.m. ET

MOSCOW—The longtime chief of the famed Bolshoi Theater lost his post Tuesday just six months after the head of the theater's ballet troupe was all but blinded in an acid attack that allegedly stemmed from behind-the-scenes infighting.

Replacing Anatoly Iksanov, 61, who had been in charge of the world-renowned cultural institution since 2000, will be Vladimir Urin, a Russian stage veteran who has run Moscow's Stanislavsky and...